On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Murray Jorgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > in my own R code I have used various forms of the R assignment operator at > different times in my life. There are arguments for and against each choice. > > A question I would like this sig is whether there are any specifically > teaching reasons for preferring one form over another? > > A second question, mainly to clarify the first, is whether different forms > might be preferred for different types of student? > > Awaiting responses with interest - Murray
<- is less error prone so you always want to use that. It might be argued that there are only a few cases where it matters but if you run into one of those cases you will be sorry you did not standardize on using <- . -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
